Wiktionary

ruai

See also: ruaí

French

edit

Verb

edit

ruai

  1. first-person singular past historic of ruer

Galician

edit

Verb

edit

ruai

  1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of ruar

Iban

edit

Etymology

edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀuqaŋ. Cognate with Malay ruang.

Noun

edit

ruai

  1. balcony or veranda of a longhouse

Descendants

edit
  • → Malay: ruai

Kikuyu

edit
 
ruai
 
ruai

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

Cf. Maasai eluaai (“whistling thorn”).

Pronunciation

edit
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.

Noun

edit

ruai class 9/10 (plural ruai)

  1. whistling thorn (Vachellia drepanolobium, syn. Acacia drepanolobium[2])

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 61. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 19 August 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
  2. ^ “ruai” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 407. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Malay

edit

Etymology

edit

From Iban ruai. Doublet of ruang.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

ruai (Jawi spelling رواي, plural ruai-ruai or reruai, informal 1st possessive ruaiku, 2nd possessive ruaimu, 3rd possessive ruainya)

  1. booth

Further reading

edit

Portuguese

edit

Verb

edit

ruai

  1. second-person plural imperative of ruar
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ruai&oldid=77183143"
  NODES
Note 1